Archive for June, 2010

Bangkok 1910 featured in Fah Thai Magazine

Fah Thai, the inflight magazine for Bangkok Airways ran a photo essay about Smiling Albino’s Bangkok 1910 adventure in their April 2010 issue. Click here and have a look at the entire piece.

Biking Bangkok

by Scott Coates When I moved to Bangkok in 1999 to develop Smiling Albino I was an avid mountain biker having taken up the sport about two years previously in Calgary, AB. It’s easy to get into the forest there, hit dirt trails and get away from people very quickly. Taking up residence in bustling [...]

Smiling Albino – Exploring Angkor Wat

by Bank Takaeng Scott Coates, a co-founder of Smiling Albino has hosted the Team NYC on Cambodia portion, a part of Vietnam and Cambodia Grand Slam Adventure. visit: smilingalbino.com

Newa Chen

by Scott Coates When traveling almost everyone stays in a hotel for most of their trip abroad. International hotel brands provide supreme comfort, all the services you could want but often lack local character. Small boutique hotels can be very neat and quirky but sometimes lack the quality and upkeep that one still expects from [...]

Staying at The Metropole Hanoi

The Sofitel Metropole Hanoi is often mentioned in the same sentence as the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok or Raffles Singapore. The Metropole, built in 1901, is Vietnam’s grand dame of hotels whose famous white neo-classical facade has become one of Hanoi’s primary landmarks. I have visited and inspected the hotel on many occasions, and Smiling Albino [...]

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